Sales of both versions of the Microsoft Surface tablet computer number just 1.5 million, four months after the software giant launched the devices in a fanfare of publicity. Furthermore, just 400,000 Surface Pros have been sold since its ...
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Qualcomm's cellular RF front-end the RF360, which takes the company into the $5bn market for mobile front-ends, could significantly disrupt the existing power amp and RF front-end module market, says Strategy Analytics.
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China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has cut its ex-works prices of butadiene in East China by 5.41% effective Wednesday, market sources said. Offers from Sinopec's subsidiaries in eastern China, Yangzi Petrochemical, Shanghai ...
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Eastern US coal producer Consol Energy has halted production at its Blacksville No. 2 underground mine on the border between Pennsylvania and West Virginia border until it determines the source of smoke detected near a shaft on the ...
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China's incoming president, Xi Jinping, will likely follow the course set by his predecessor in dealing with Russia, according to a former senior vice president at China National Offshore Oil Corporation, Victor Gao. Xi is expected to be ...
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Falling natural gas liquids production in the US Midwest and Rockies has resulted in a return of the regional frac spread to positive territory and a drop-off in ethane rejection since mid-January, a Platts analysis shows. Platts ...
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LEM plans to open a production plant in Bulgaria, with an initial investment of two million Swiss Francs (€1.6m). The plan is to have the facility in Sofia up and running by October. It will create 50 new jobs. This is part of the ...
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Global O-Xylene market showed downward trend in the week ending March 9, 2013. In Korea, O-Xylene prices went down last week, due to dull downstream buying sentiment in the region and lower downstream product prices. In the initial days ...
Element14 has introduced a website to support the selection of software tools and BoosterPacks for the Texas Instruments MSP430 Value Line, C2000 and Stellaris microcontrollers. Dubbed TI LaunchPad, the microsite provides access to ...
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In this highly competitive arena of cuisine & culinary industry, every kitchen passes highly tense moments while serving people with regular demands in national and international cuisines. In maturing such needs, every kitchen needs ...
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Australian mining giant Rio Tinto remains committed to its $10 billion Simandou iron ore projects located in Guinea, West Africa, despite the slowdown in progress regarding development of the project, according to media reports. The ...
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Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced that Cherepovets Steel Mill, a part of its Russian steel division, will invest up to RUB 2.5 billion ($81 million) in its environmental improvement program in 2013. According to Severstal, this ...
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Hong Kong reinsurer, Peak Reinsurance (Peak Re) has selected AIR Worldwide's catastrophe modeling solutions to manage its catastrophe risk in the Asia-Pacific market. Equipped with a comprehensive catalog of simulated storms, the ...
As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the construction of a total of 239,500 dwellings was permitted in Germany in 2012. Compared with the same period of 2011, this indicates an increase of 4.8 percent or 11,100 ...
Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel, Ltd has announced that its Chinese steel wire processing joint venture, Kobelco Spring Wire (Foshan) Co., Ltd (KSW), located in Foshan, Guangdong Province, has started operations. Kobe Steel owns a 50 percent ...
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